- #WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF DISK CLEANUP ON MAC MAC OS X#
- #WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF DISK CLEANUP ON MAC MOD#
There are many examples of people deleting files outside their home folder, or renaming files, or changing the ownership or file permissions, and then their Mac stops running. If you think you have found something to delete outside your home folder, it would be best to ask first before deleting. Solid State drives do not have sectors in the usual sense, so there is nothing to clean up. All you have to do is hit Run in the end. If your MBA has a solid state drive the drive firmware itself does 'cleanup.' Every time you save a file it is moved to a new location. With CleanMyMac X, it’s ten times easier because the app does the tedious part for you finds and sorts the old files and digs up caches with random app junk. The swapfile(s) get deleted on reboot, and the sleep image is just going to be created again when you put your Mac to sleep. There’s hardly any fun in going through all your folders looking for files you don’t need.
#WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF DISK CLEANUP ON MAC MAC OS X#
I will point out that you will find some very large files in private -> var -> vm (these are the Mac OS X virtual memory paging files (swapfiles) and where Mac OS X stores the copy of RAM when your Mac is put to sleep). Question 37 When files are stored on a disk in groups called clusters, which are sometimes not adjacent to one another on the disk, this is known as.
#WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF DISK CLEANUP ON MAC MOD#
I accidentally double posted the same thread, can a mod or admin please delete the other thread please. Question 36 What is the Mac OS X equivalent of the Windows Disk Cleanup utility Repair Disk. Remember, we cannot see into your disk, you have to give us information to work with.ĭO NOT delete files in your Home Folder -> Library tree as there are things like your iPhone backups, your email messages, your application preferences, etc... If you think you have found something in your Home Folder -> Library that can be deleted, you should ask first.ĭO NOT delete files outside your home folder, as you may end up deleting something essential to Mac OS X, and turn your Mac into an expensive “Door Stop”. As the title says, does mac have a disk cleanup equivalent Is there need for such a program Sorry if these questions are dumb to ask but Im a total noob to OS X. Posting the suspected locations and files will help the forum help you to figure it out. If you have a recurring, running out of disk space, problem, then OmniDiskSweeper may help identify where the space is going.
See the following article if you want to run it as root When using OmniDiskSweeper, or any utility that shows all your files. View macOS Quiz.docx from MIS MISC at Franklin University.